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ghly violent) to PG and G ratings. Between summer and Christmas of 1989, NCTV surveyed 176 Nintendo video games. Among the games surveyed, 11.4% received the XUnfit rating. Another 44.3% and 15.3% received the other violent ratings of XV and RV, respectively. A total of 20% of games received a PG or G rating' (NCTV, 1990).Some educational professionals, while allowing that video games permit children to engage in a somewhat creative dialogue, maintain that this engagement is highly constrained compared to other activities, such as creative writing (Provenzo, 1992) 'Excessive use of video games may have some or all of the symptoms of drug addiction or other proposed psychological addictions. Some players become more concerned with their interactions in the game than in their broader lives. Players may play many hours perÂ day, gain or lose significant weight due to playing, disrupt sleep patterns to play and suffer sleep deprivation as an effect, play at work, avoid phone calls from friends and/or lie about play time. Relationships with family and friends and performance at work or school may suffer '(Tanner, 2007).

In the world of video game addiction there's an increasing evidence that people of all ages, especially teens and pre-teens, are facing very real, sometimes severe consequences associated with the excessive use of video games .Most adolescents like to spend their free time playing video games. But for some who starts out as innocent recreation can lead to addiction. Soon, friends, family, schools, and eve personal hygiene are neglected as nearly every spare moment is spent playing the game. When I first saw the game of my best friends I asked them curiously 'How to play that kind of game?' because I don't really know how to play Depends of the Ancients commonly called DOTA... I was a third year student when I had been influence by my best friends to play such game, since the day I've watched them play, I was tempted to play too, it just looks like interesting and funa€|At first it's really hard for me to learn that game, first of all we don't have computer at home. But, I learned from my companion because, in every time they play, I play too, even I'm not as good as them. Since then I always play without realizing that I'm playing too much, wasting time just playing. But I'm not that kind of addict that can neglect their friends, family school and especially personal hygiene. I just play when I have nothing to do and I can even manage my time regularly. Even now, I just play whenever I have nothing to do such as schoolwork's. It just happen before because when you are playing, you just can forget the things that you need to do first before playing and the feeling, its really different when you're playing the excitement, eagerness to win etca€|According to Webster's Dictionary, an addictive behavior allows a person to become dependent or compulsively obsessed with anything. Compulsive behaviors are rooted in need to reduce tensions caused by inner feelings a person wants to avoid or control.' This fantasy world allows endlessÂ opportunities to the gamer to keep feeding their addiction,' said Schaperow. 'It is not the game that is the problem; it is other problems in their lives that they cannot control. The game allows the person to escape from reality and take control of the fantasy world.' Treatment for the disorder varies, however most therapists and professionals agree that the root of the problem